Niagara County, New York Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Niagara County, New York had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.69 times the US outage time per person and 1.12 times the New York rate. It ranks 43 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

79 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Dechardest months

March and December made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 8, 2017, reached 28,719 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 78.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated New York counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	120,605	72	2
2016	141,227	65	1
2017	850,206	77	2
2018	323,739	69	3
2019	509,010	85	3
2020	192,229	79	2
2021	565,730	86	5
2022	369,339	80	2
2023	95,142	64	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 8, 2017	78.2	28,719	729,396
Dec 11, 2021	53.2	24,256	377,185
Feb 24, 2019	30.0	15,856	214,198
Dec 23, 2022	79.0	6,861	193,208
May 4, 2018	21.5	15,958	128,869

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.